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Vancouver International Film Festival

SEPTEMBER 24 - OCTOBER 9, 2015

One Of The Largest Film Festivals in North America

The 34th annual Vancouver International Film Festival, September 24 - October 9, 2015 will once again welcome some of the world's finest films to one of the most beautiful cities on the planet. Be sure to sign-up for the VIFF newsletter or join us on Facebook and Twitterso you can stay in tune with Festival news and the year-round programming at the Vancity Theatre.

Thanks to all the filmmakers, volunteers, sponsors, staff and enthusiastic audiences who helped make the 33rd annual Vancouver International Film Festival a resounding success. VIFF 2014 set a new box office record, seeing a 10% increase on 2013 festival. Between September 25 and October 10, 2014, VIFF presented 549 public screenings of 349 films from more than 70 countries, confirming its status as one of the continent's largest film festivals.

Over the course of those 16 days, 219 feature films and 130 short or mid-length films played on nine screens at seven venues. An additional 24 media screenings occurred prior to the festival and there were 25 VIFF Repeats screenings over the holiday weekend that followed the festival. All told, gated attendance for VIFF and the VIFF Industry conference exceeded 144,000.

"It was a pivotal year for VIFF as we focused on internal transition and Industry repositioning," says Jacqueline Dupuis, VIFF Executive Director. "In addition to the overwhelming response from audiences and the box office, we also tested new initiatives from the sold out Style in Film series to spoken word artist Shane Koyczan world premiering his new piece prior to the Closing Gala screening of Whiplash. The foundation has been set for our next stage of growth and we are excited with what we now have planned for audiences in 2015."